New Delhi: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar today resigned from the primary membership of the party. He has written to party president Rahul Gandhi submitting his resignation.
“I tender my resignation with immediate effect from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress in the wake of the judgement of the hon’ble high court of Delhi against me,” he said in the letter to Rahul.
His resignation comes a day after the Delhi High Court on Monday convicted Kumar for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and sentenced him to imprisonment for life.
Earlier in the day, Sajjan had evaded questions about his conviction outside the famous Hanuman Temple in Delhi’s Connaught Place. He walked past mediapersons and ignored repeated questions from reporters. He was accompanied by armed guards during his visit to the temple.
The Delhi High Court held overturned his acquittal by the trial court and held that the violence was a ‘crime against humanity’ engineered by politicians with assistance from police. The High Court convicted him and five others saying that the ‘criminals’ had escaped prosecution and punishment for over two decades.